It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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